Date: December 11, 2009 (Friday)
Time: 12:30 – 14:00 (sandwich lunch from 12:30 –12:45; seminar begins at 12:45)
Venue: Mrs Chen Yang Foo Oi Telemedicine Centre, 2/F, Room A2-08, William M.W. Mong Block, Faculty of Medicine Building, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

Abstract:

Mortality displacement refers to the situation where air pollution impacts a frail subset of the population with a relatively short expected future lifetime. If the mortality effects of exposure to ambient air pollution are mortality displacement alone then this has different implications for the public health burden of air pollution compared to the situation where air pollution is shortening the lives of otherwise healthy individuals. In this seminar, Professor Steven Roberts will give a brief overview of time-series studies of the association between air pollution and mortality, discuss the issue of mortality displacement and then discuss some recent time-series research in this area.

Bio-sketch:

Professor Steven Roberts is an Associate Professor in the School of Finance and Applied Statistics at the Australian National University (ANU). He obtained his PhD in Statistics from Stanford University and his undergraduate degree in Actuarial studies from the ANU.